Between two rivers : ancient Mesopotamia and the birth of history / Moudhy Al-Rashid.
| Author/creator | Al-Rashid, Moudhy, 1982- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First American edition. |
| Publication | New York, NY : W.W. Norton and Company, 2025. |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | viii, 327 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Ancient Mesopotamia and the birth of history |
| Variant title | Between 2 rivers |
| Contents | Introduction: Mesopotamia matters -- An ancient museum and the history of history -- The clay drum : "the first written words started here" -- The brick of Amar-Suen : Mesopotamia's building blocks -- The statue of King Shulgi : how to be a good king -- The school tablets : ancient Babylonian ABCs -- The cone of Kudur-Mabuk : the birth of science -- The boundary stone : slaves and scribes, weavers and wives -- The mace head : the art vs reality of war -- Ennigaldi-Nanna : princess, priestess, and curator? -- Epilogue: Between us and them -- Acknowledgments -- Selected artifacts cited -- A timeline of ancient Mesopotamian history -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index. |
| Abstract | "Thousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for the very first time. What they left behind, in a vast region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, preserves leaps in human ingenuity, like the earliest depiction of a wheel and the first approximation of pi. But they also capture breathtakingly intimate, raw, and relatable moments, like a dog's paw prints as it accidentally stepped into fresh clay, or the imprint of a child's teeth. In Between Two Rivers, historian Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid reveals what these ancient people chose to record about their lives, allowing us to brush hands with them millennia later. Millennia ago, Mesopotamians saw the world's first cities, the first writing system, early seeds of agriculture, and groundbreaking developments in medicine and astronomy. With intimacy and grace, Al-Rashid brings their lives--with all their anxieties, aspirations, and intimacies--vividly close to our own."-- Adapted from publisher's description. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-318) and index. |
| Genre/form | HIS002000. |
| Genre/form | HIS026000. |
| Genre/form | HIS039000. |
| Genre/form | SOC003000. |
| Genre/form | Informational works. |
| Genre/form | Documents d'information. |
| ISBN | 9781324036425 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 1324036427 (hardback) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | DS69.5 .A47 2025 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |